Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 23 shown for “Mount Carmel Baptist Church, American, founded 1876” — 56 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 16:50 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet · 1860

The Mount Carmel Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 83
Mount Carmel Baptist Church, American, founded 1876 · May 22, 1932

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Flier for a Mount Olive Baptist Church rally
Unidentified · 1926

Madonna and Child with Saints
Giovanni Bellini · ca. 1505–10
Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church Sign
Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Form letter for National Baptist Convention in Chicago
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., American, founded 1895 · 1943

Saint Francis
Federico Barocci · ca. 1600–1604

Shotgun shell found outside the16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham
Artist not stated in the record · September 1963

The Agony in the Garden
Nicolas Poussin · 1626–27

Ten shards of stained glass
Unidentified · September 1963

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Deacon's chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church
Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914 · ca. 1900

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard
Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515

Deacon's chair from Spruce Street Baptist Church, Nashville
Unidentified · ca. 1900

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Program from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral at the Ebenezer Baptist Church
Unidentified · April 9, 1968

Elijah in the Fiery Chariot
Master of the Barbarigo Reliefs · ca. 1520

Ceramic plate commemorating the Centennial of the 16th Street Baptist Church
Kettlesprings Kilns, American, founded 1950 · 1973

The Vision of Saint John
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14

Deacon’s chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church
Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914 · ca. 1900

Salvator Mundi
Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1505
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 16 matched · 16 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1117647 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 16:50 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.